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-sperm

a combining form with the meaning “one having seeds” of the kind specified by the initial element: gymnosperm.

Origin:
< Gk -spermos; see -spermous
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-sperm  
suff.  Seed: endosperm.

[Greek -spermos, from sperma, seed; see sperm1.]
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